Dracula, prince of darkness ... causing the spikes to pierce their skin. Vlad III, the second of four brothers, was likely born in 1431 in Transylvania, a craggy, verdant part of present-day ...

However, King Charles III has an unexpected genealogical relationship with a more infamous historical figure: Dracula. Not ...

Vlad the Impaler, the fearsome Romanian ruler that inspired the story of Dracula, may have cried actual tears of blood, a new study suggests. Traces of proteins found on letters he wrote in 1457 ...